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Wednesday, 6th June 2007

Y10 Learn about the 'Miracle of Life'

"I thought the LIFE day was an interesting experience because a lot was learned during the day".

In the first session a woman call Eileén Maher, from the LIFE charity in Sheffield, came to St. Austin’s theatre to talk about the miracle of life with Year 10 pupils. She told us about the difference stages in which a baby grows and develops. She used life size models of the baby at each stage to help explain that the baby had thoughts and feelings at such a young age. The life size models proved popular with most of the year 10 students. We went off into smaller groups and discussed thoughts and feelings that we may have had.

The next session ‘sanctity of life’ helped us reflect on the miracle of life. We were given a set of cards in small groups and had to put them in order of importance. On the cards were statements and bible quotes about life and how precious life is. The cards made us think about life and why we should appreciate our lives. We have no right to destroy any lives or our own.

Our third session was ‘tentenproductions’ about the ‘babies project’ where two actors came to show us a drama about the miracle of life and abortion. The plot of the story was that Annie was pregnant and boyfriend Joe gave the impression that he didn’t want the baby but after a talk with his mother about his own childhood, he realised that he wanted to be a father and have a child. When he told Annie about this it turned out that Annie had already had an abortion. This caused devastation with Joe. The abortion went ahead because there was no real communication from either the mother or father.

Communication was a key word throughout the day.

Written by Katrina Turfrey, Year 10